Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) offers a wide selection of operating systems for your workloads, on virtual machines and bare metal instances across OCI’s distributed cloud.
Oracle Linux
Oracle Autonomous Linux
Oracle’s high performing and secure operating environment for demanding workloads, with unique features and optimizations for OCI and Oracle Database, including zero-downtime automated patching. Oracle Linux Premier Support is included with OCI Compute subscriptions without additional cost.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
One of the world’s leading enterprise Linux platforms. Optimized for a wide range of architectures, enabling a reliable platform for many use cases and a consistent application environment across multiple deployments.
Microsoft Windows Server
Windows Server is the foundation of Microsoft’s ecosystem and a platform for building a fleet of connected applications, networks, and web services. Available in the Compute console.
Ubuntu
Ubuntu Server provides economic and technical scalability to your workload. It offers a lean initial installation along with integrated deployment and application modeling technologies. Available in the Compute console.
SUSE
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is a secure, adaptable, and easy-to-manage Linux server platform that lets developers and administrators deploy business-critical workloads. Learn how to bring your own image.
AlmaLinux
AlmaLinux is an open source, community-owned and community-governed, forever-free enterprise Linux distribution, focused on long-term stability and providing a robust production-grade platform. Learn how to bring your own image.
Rocky Linux
Rocky Linux is an open source enterprise operating system (OS), providing solid stability with regular updates and a 10-year support lifecycle. Available in Oracle Cloud Marketplace.
CentOS Linux
CentOS Linux reached end of life on June 30, 2024.
Oracle Linux Premier Support is included on OCI.
Select from a variety of enterprise operating systems
For operating systems offered in the compute console as a platform image, Oracle Cloud supports the current and prior versions of each operating system, subject to the vendor’s lifecycle.*
Choose your performance
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s flexible virtual machines offer scalability as small as a single CPU and 1 GB of memory per CPU. Select the performance you need instead of oversizing and overpaying.
Run workloads where you need to
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s distributed cloud offers customers the flexibility to deploy their workloads wherever they want, including public clouds, hybrid clouds, dedicated regions, and multicloud environments.
It’s time to reflect and celebrate the past year’s accomplishments. Oracle Linux achieved significant milestones, innovative developments, and strong synergy with customers, partners, and the open source community.
We’ve recapped the moments that made 2024 a memorable year for Oracle Linux and its community. More innovations to come in 2025!
Read the full postOracle Autonomous Linux tunes itself.
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* Operating systems available as platform images in the OCI Compute console may not be available on all compute shapes. Please check the documentation and the console for valid configurations.